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Statistical machine translation

Statistical machine translation (SMT) is a machine translation approach where translations are generated on the basis of statistical models whose parameters are derived from the analysis of bilingual text corpora. The statistical approach contrasts with the rule-based approaches to machine translation as well as with example-based machine translation…

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Word-based translation

Phrase-based translation

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Statistical machine translation

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples22
Avg. degree1.96
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Statistical machine translation

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related to Basis · 7
Statistical machine translation → Bayes, English, Finding, French, One, The, This
related to Shortcomings · 6
Statistical machine translation → Corpus, Results, Specific, Statistical, The, Western European
related to Benefits · 4
Statistical machine translation → Generally, More, SMT, The
related to External links · 2
Statistical machine translation → Annotated, Includes
related to Language models · 2
Statistical machine translation → It, Other
related to Challenges with statistical machine translation · 1
Statistical machine translation → Problems

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